I started the Boost Blogger System with no list, no existing traffic and no backlinks.

On April 19th, I sold a mini-course on my client’s blog entitled “CPA Express”.

After executing the Boost Blogger Content System, I was able to make this many sales in 24 hours.

More importantly, traffic in my website increased by a whopping 63%

The best part?

You can do the same thing for your business even if you have not made a cent online. I’ll take you through the entire 3-step content marketing process.

The 3-Step Boost Blogger Content System to Get Targeted Traffic and Sales

There are 4 steps to the Boost Blogger System.

Here’s why the system works so well.

Unlike the traditional content marketing strategy that compels you to write as much content as you can (Who wants to do that anyway?), this strategy only teaches you to write a few targeted pieces that are designed to convert your visitors into buyers.

The system also includes an automated promotion system so that you can set-and-forget your promotion as you focus more on content.

Then, it will also teach you the perfect time to sell your product or service to get maximum returns.

So what do you say?

Now: The Boost Blogger Content System is just one part of the whole Boost Blogger System. This only covers the content part. I cover the whole system in my mini-course: the Boost Blogger System.

Step 1: Map Your Customer’s Quest for a Solution to their Problem

STAGE 1: Problematic Stage

In the Problematic Stage, the customer goes through the pain of the problem. This is when he experiences the problem but doesn’t know how to solve it.

For example, this can be a woman who is recently broken-hearted because her boyfriend broke up with her. She knows that she has a problem but she is still wallowing in the pain and not looking for a solution.

STAGE 3: Research Stage

At the research stage, the woman vows to search for a solution to her problem. She does this by going on search engines to look for ways on how to overcome her depression. This is the stage where content marketers can come in and provide solutions.

STAGE 2: Solution-Oriented Stage

In the Solution-Oriented stage, there is acceptance of the problem and the disposition to find a solution.

If we go back to our example, the woman will now be ready to move on at this stage. She knows that she is broken-hearted but she doesn’t want to wallow in the pain anymore. She now resolves to find a solution to her pain but she is still not doing the search.

STAGE 4: Best Solution Stage

At the Best Solution Stage, the woman would have searched for all the possible solutions to her problem. This can include talking to a friend, seeking a therapist or simply going outside to do something new. This is the stage where the woman will decide on the solution that is best for her.

This is the stage when products or services are best promoted. It is at this stage that prospects are most willing to spend on products or services that can help them with their problems.

What stage is your customer in? Are you providing the right content?

It is important to map your customer’s quest for a solution so that you can come in with the right content at the right time. This way, they will be more likely to buy from you.

Step 2: Provide Content for Each Stage

Now that you know the different stages that a customer goes through, it is time to know the types of content for each stage. Here are some examples of content that are relevant for each stage.

STAGE 1: Problematic Stage

The problematic stage is emphasized if you relate with your customer’s pain. You can do this by simply having an introduction that reminds your target market of their pain.

This can be a question.

Or it can be a story of how you or someone experienced the pain.

The most important thing about this stage is to relate with your customer’s pain.

STAGE 3: Research Stage

This is when you should create in-depth content. You can do this by creating three types of content: an in-depth guide, a tutorial or a detailed list. Here is a brief explanation of each.

A tutorial contains steps on how to do a particular goal and a detailed demonstration of each step in text and pictures. This is useful for it takes the guesswork out of implementing the process. Everything is demonstrated in detail.

An in-depth guide is somewhat similar to a tutorial with the exception that it may contain some definition of terms and other parts.

A detailed list is useful because it shows all the possible solutions to a problem. The solutions just to be detailed enough that the reader can easily implement the items on the list without trouble.

STAGE 2: Solution-Oriented Stage

In this stage, you need to show that the solution that your customer is thinking about is possible. How? You can do this in two ways. You can do it by making yourself the case study or you can make another person the case study, The key is to demonstrate how the solution worked for you or someone else. That is all there is to it.

STAGE 4: Best Solution Stage

To show your customer the best solution, you can create comparison content or insert your product or service in your research stage content. At this stage, it is important to emphasize why your proposed solution is the best solution to the problem.

NOTE: It is important to have a significant number of blogposts before you begin promotion. You should include at least 8 blogposts before you start promotion – this is enough content to get your prospects to trust you.

Step 3: Forget the Write-and-Wait Approach

The write-and-wait approach doesn’t work anymore. Yet, the majority of bloggers do it and then wonder why they are not reaching their financial goals.

Here’s how most bloggers approach content marketing.

They spend hours crafting the perfect blogpost. They spruce it up with images and statistics.

But they don’t promote it.

This may have something to do with all those Content is King advocates who think believe the saying “Buiild It and They Will Come.” But this is a strategy doomed for failure.

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Blogger Outreach is the only way to build links in 2017 and beyond. In fact, it should not be called link building. It should be called ‘relationship building’. There is simply no other way to rank higher in the search engines than through network marketing.

Today, I am going to show you how I increased my traffic by 84.26% with just 15 days of outreach – Yes. It is that powerful!

How I Increased My Traffic in 15 Days with the Guildmaster Technique

On January 21, 2017, I launched a 6-page website for my client in the Self Development niche.

This is a brand new website with 0 backlinks and 0 connections.

With just 15 days of promotion, here are the results.

And it was not just empty traffic. All of the visitors were engaging with the brand new website.

And a good percentage of them are coming back for more.

Aside from that, we are also getting some traffic from the backlinks that we got from highly relevant websites like these. (Note: We also got traffic from 2 top influencers in the niche)

You can also do the same to your website… even if you don’t have any budget for any fancy software or service.

It was just a week ago when I launched the website for a client of mine in the Self Development niche.

I created the blog from scratch with just 3 pages of content, an about page and a contact page.

I made sure that the design is relevant to the niche of my client. So I used black and white in the design.

Then, I also designed a quick about page and contact page just so the website is presentable enough to be promoted.

Then, I created 2 lists and 1 guide. I consider these types of content to be highly linkable and shareable. I created a tab in the navigation bar for the guide and linked the blogposts in the homepage.

I then went ahead to find my guild.

A guild is simply a one-word description for your niche network. This is a group of people who are passionate about your niche. They can be bloggers or influencers. The goal of these people is to spread the word about your niche and to inspire as many people as possible.

Your goal is to find your guild. You can do this in two ways:

Search for Guild Members on Google

The easiest way to find your guild is to search for them on Google. To do this, simply look for your main keywords. These can be topics of your blogposts or it can also be the main keywords of your blog. Type them and take note of at least 10 influencers.

The way I do this is that I keep all the influencers in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet includes their first name, last name, email, website and social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn and G+.

Find The Most Shared Posts in Your Niche

You can also use a tool called BuzzSumo for searching guild members. Simply key in your main keyword or topic and it will uncover highly shared pages in the niche. You can then visit these websites and record all of the influencers that you find.

Once you find a list of influencers, it is time to support them. You can do this commenting on their blog, commenting on their facebook page, replying to their tweets, replying to their Google+ updates, commenting on their Instagram updates and connecting via email and Linkedin.

To comment on their blogs, I use a tool called Feedly. This allows me to have all the blogs in one place and see their latest updates without the need for mention tools.

NOTE: The key is to just connect without asking for a link. Just participate in the guild and get a feel of it. Don’t ask for anything. Just support them.

Aside from influencers, you can also empower your guild supporters. These are the people who tirelessly support the influencers.

To do this, simply look for a popular influencer blog and look at all the people who guest posted in the blog. Visit their websites and support them.

Here is an example. For the case of my client, I was targeting websites that are relevant to simplicity or minimalism. Here are the guest posts that I found in an influencer’s website.

And he has more…

I also add these people into my spreadsheet.

In the same way, you can also support their commenters, likers and followers. You can do this by clicking on their names and visiting their websites from the blogs. You can also message them in social networks.

One of the things I have noticed is that supporters are more open to conversations than influencers. This is great especially if you are just building your brand from scratch.

Out of the 15-Day Outreach promotion, I got a 84.26% increase in traffic, got a position in the 4th page of Google (our Facebook page is in the 3rd page of Google) and got 10 high quality links that directed traffic to the blog. All of the visitors are high quality – visiting 1-2 pages in my 6-page website and staying for at least 2 minutes. Also, 22.7% are still coming back for more.

I am also gaining traction because I also see some authors of the blogs responding with the promotion.

I got two influencers to like our tweets. Two influencers to like our comments and we even got one influencer reaching out to the website to make the first comment – The feeling was amazing!

Now You Try It

I hope you can see the potential of the Guildmaster Technique for your website.

It doesn’t involve massive submission of links or emails but it worked in getting the influencers’ attention. This is surprising for it is done with just 15 days of promotion.

Blogging tools lists are all over the Internet. But this one is different.

This is a real blogging toolkit that contains tools that you can use right away. This is not a mishmash of tools that contains SEO and marketing tools. It just contains tools that are relevant to blog creation and marketing.

Here are 235 Blogging Tools sorted by task. I hope that you find this list useful.

Portent Headline Generator – Can’t think of a good blogpost title? Just type in your subject here and it will automatically think of a title for you

ContentForest Ideator – Get an idea or be inspired. Let the ideator do all the thinking. Just key in your subject or keyword.

SumoMe Headline Generator – I like this tool out of the bunch because it allows you to specify the type of content that you want to generate as well as let you choose from different types of headlines.

Title Generator – This acts pretty much in the same way as the other generators. The titles says it all.

SEO Book Keyword Tools – This tool may look old but it is still effective. Aaron Wall did a great job in crafting this tool.

SEMRush – Want to do competitive keyword research? You can do it with this tool. SEMRush allows you to compare keywords and find out the keywords that you would like to use.

SpyFu – Another competitive keyword research tool is SpyFu. Find out what your competitors are using and swoop down to take the rankings from them.

WordTracker – Warning: This tool is not free. It may look free but it’s not. But it is a good tool for keyword analysis.

KWFinder – Another tool you can use for longtail keyword research is KWFinder. It is designed just for that.

Yoast Suggest – Working almost like Google Planner, this tools creates suggestions and gives the option to export the results to a CSV file.

Wordstream Keyword Tool – You may have heard of this before. But this tool also allows you to do some keyword searches. Only that searches are limited to 30 a day.

FreshKey – This tool is not free but it is for good reason. This generates more than just keywords. It generates buyer keywords.

Ninja Search Combination Tool – Want to generate a huge list of keywords in a short time. Also utilizing the Google search query, this tool is able to create a huge keyword list in a click.

Keyword Discovery – Really old but this tool still does the job of getting keywords and displaying them on a table.

WordPot – Want to know the daily search volume of your keyword? Wordpot can do it for you.

KeywordSpy – This tool can help you generate keywords based on similar words and spelling mistakes. Designed for PPC, this is a tool that can help you target the right keywords for your advertisements.

KeywordEye – Based in the UK, this tool is the only one out there that generates LSI keywords.

KGen – KGen is your browser’s best friend as it analyzes keywords on any webpage. Because of this, it may also be a good competitive keyword tool as well.

SerpStat – Looks like a professional tool with lots of inside tools. Might be useful for in-depth keyword research.

Content Collection

Scoop.it – Leading the list is Scoop.it – the perfect place to find highly relevant and shareable content for your niche.

Pocket – Looking for an app that can help you find, annotate and keep all the content in one place even if you got it in different places on the Internet? Pocket is the answer.

Curata CCS – A tool that assists you in your content marketing efforts by helping you search, annotate, organize, compile and share content.

DrumUp – Fuse social media and content marketing in one with DrumUp – the tool that can mine content from social media channels in real time.

Feedly – Have all of your favorite blogs in one place. Go there when you need some ideas but find all of their feeds in one place.

List.ly – The list is a very popular type of blogpost. It always get shares. Generate a quick list through this website.

Storify – Join a community of storymakers. Share your story and curate some useful ones for your website.

Paper.li – Want your own online newspaper? You can now do it with Paper.li.

Pulse – Find the latest news on LinkedIn and have the news flow in your mobile gadgets so that you can find easily find and share them.

Delicious – Delicious may be old but it is still working well. Keep all of your bookmarks in one place with its compact bookmarklet.

ContentGems – ContentGems offers a service that helps marketers find and share relevant content to their followers.

Bundlr – Group items together and pass them off as new content. Bundlr can help you in that area.

Flipboard – Want to be able to create your own online magazine? You can do that with Flipboard. Put all of your favorite news, stories and articles in one place.

EverPost – Need story ideas? No problem! With EverPost, you’ll get a steady stream of ideas along with the option to save the information that you find.

CurationSoft – Offers a service that establishes a company as a thought leader by helping them find content while keeping their authoritative voice.

RockTheDeadline – Want to access a stream of updated news and content that you can instantly curate and share? That’s what RocktheDeadline can do for you.

TumbleCloud – Find stories that you can arrange, co-create and share. A tool for collaborative storytelling.

UpContent – Find the most relevant and recent content from social influencers with UpContent. It is able to pull up news and blogposts and sort them accordingly.

Kuratur – This is content curation on steroids. Have your curation done automagically with this tool.

ClipZine – Have your own ezine with Clipzine. Easily generate your own ezine with curated content and share it with your followers.

Magnify – Have the ability to curate content in video form. Magnify will help you do that.

Scribit – Search and track conversions of your content all at the same time with Scribit.

BagTheWeb – Collect content in a bag and share them with others through this tool.

TagBoard – Search content through hashtags across different social media channels with TagBoard.

MassRelevance – Social media is no longer optional. It is a good thing that there is Mass Relevance to help brands connect with their audiences.

iFlow – Look at real time streams on any topic and have the ability to curate it to craft new content.

Curation Traffic – Using WordPress? Use this plugin to harvest posts, articles, graphics and videos to fuel your blog.

Addict-o-matic – Key in a trending topic and Addict-o-matic will look for it in real time websites across the Internet.

HeadSlinger – Tap the power of headlines through this headline search tool.

Postano – Looking for content for your website and other materials? Postano targets brands and organizations to deliver the most relevant content to them.

Trap!t – Want to choose the content that you see? You can do that through the personalized content discovery of Trap!t.

Postplanner – This is an advanced search tool that let you find ideas based on keywords and lead you to the experts in your chosen niche.

Bundlepost – Here is another tool that utilizes the power of social media. This tool helps find statuses so that you can curate and schedule them for sharing.

Liiist – Looking for an online folder where you can keep everything? Liist is what you are looking for.

Newsle – Want to keep yourself updated with what your Facebook friends, email contacts and LinkedIn connections are doing? Have it all in one place with this tool.

Summify – Do you want a summary of all of your fees in one convenient location? Use Summify. It will be great for content research too.

Prismatic – Prismatic is another tool where you can create a personalized feed. This is better than just scrolling through Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. It is better because it is highly customized

Storyful – If you need to come up with a story everyday and you don’t have access to a professional newsroom, use Storyful – a tool that curates the most relevant news and puts it in one place.

RebelMouse – Create your own website ready with content and connections to your social network.

Channelkit – Have all of your content in one place. It doesn’t matter what format they come in. They can be PDFs, images, webpages or documents. You can have it in one place with Channelkit.

Sharpr – What I like about this tool is its ability to disseminate information to a team. It is a good collaboration tool as well as an information sharing tool.

Huzzaz – Like Magnify, Huzzaz allows you to curate videos in one location. It can be from Youtube, Vimeo or other video sharing websites.

LinkHubb – Want to share links in a visual platform? LinkHubb allows you to upload everything in a cloud platform. The best part is that it also has some metrics.

Alexa Audit Tool – Audit your site with this tool that has been crawling the web since it began. You get a 7 days free trial at the beginning.

Contentlook Plugin – Have a Content Audit Tool right inside your WordPress dashboard. Use this plugin.

CAT (Content Analysis Tool) – This tool crawls your content to show you all of the links as well as the pageviews, bounce rate and the likes.

Blaze – Know which content is getting the most pageviews and the lowest bounce rates with Blaze. Comes with a free demo.

DynoMapper– Find out what type of content you have by looking at the keywords, the images and other information.

Brafton – Brafton offers more than just content analytics. It also helps you when it comes to SEO and social media marketing.

Content services

Upwork – Look for the right freelancer at UpWork – the leading freelancing website on the Internet.

Fiverr – Need a quick job done? Try Fiverr where you can hire people for just $5.

Contently – Need help with your content? Contently gives you access to high quality writers who can help you craft your content. Everything is handled inside their platform making it easy for your to focus on content ideas.

Skyword – With over 20,000 writers, a connection with Thomson Reuters and a partnership with Bigstock Images, you’ll be sure to choose this over the rest.

Textbroker – Looking for quick content? Look at no other than textbroker.

iWriter – This website allows you to put up a job and wait up to four hours for its completion.

From here, you are probably wondering ‘What the heck is wrong with my blog?’

Today, I will discuss the 9 common content marketing mistakes that bloggers make when they create content.

Blogging is not a chore. It should be done out of passion.

Sure, you learned that blogging can make you money. But if you create a blogpost just for the sake of productivity, that is a grave mistake.

If you did not enjoy writing your blogpost, no one is going to enjoy reading it.

Why? Because it shows.

The words you use, the way you create paragraphs and sentences and the way you showcase items on the list – it shows how much you enjoyed what you are doing.

And if you dread every minute of writing, your audience will know.

Now: if writing is not for you, hire someone to do it.

That’s better than creating articles that will just clutter the Internet.

No one likes to read an article that is just a rehashed version of all the other related articles on the Internet.

Seriously, learn to do your research and add some creativity to your articles.

As a rule, you should aim to provide something new to your niche’s body of knowledge.

How? Share your personal experience, share a unique twist to a method or share a combination of strategies that you have learned.

Don’t simply rewrite articles and claim that the ideas are yours. That’s a no-no!

I have seen blogs who are so focused on publishing on a daily basis that they focus too much on just having any type of content published without even thinking of inserting images or altering the format.

The result?

A big block of text so huge that it scares anyone that comes to read it.

You see, online readers are skimmers. They don’t read text as much.

This is the reason why image-centric social networks like Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat is currently so popular.

Please, do your readers a favor and insert some images into your blogposts.

The more, the merrier.

I’ll be honest. You have one chance to impress your reader.

Once he sees that you only provide ‘ideas’ without the ‘how’, he will quickly click ‘back’ and look for another blogpost that can help him with his problem.

Your goal as a content marketer is to create content that will bring your reader from where he is to what I call his ‘dream status’. If your content cannot do this, it can quickly send your readers off to look for information in another blog.

That’s the same as losing customers.

If you don’t want this to happen, you might as well develop the habit of explaining the ‘how’ behind your ideas.

For example, you wanted to teach your reader how to go on a diet.

Instead of saying general phrases like ‘ drink more water’ or ‘eat less carbs’, you should be very specific about the steps.

For example, say ‘eat less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day’ or ‘drink 2 liters of water everyday’. Make the number super specific and expand the phrase with step-by-step instructions.

Please don’t make the mistake of putting an ordinary headline on an extraordinary article.

An easy way to have an interesting headline is to include a key benefit and a specific number. If you can include a timeline, that’s better.

Here are some examples of good headlines:

It has a benefit and a number – plus, it has an unspecified timeline.

Here’s another one.

It can get better. But this is a rule that you must follow if you want people clicking on the links to your blogposts.

Benefits are not just for salespages. You also need to include benefits into your blogposts.

You see, we live in a world where there are millions of content online. You need to prove to your potential reader that you are worth their time by showing them the benefits of reading your content.

How? By stating it in your headline and in the first sentence of your post.

Just highlight the main benefit that your readers can get out of your content.

Will it give them ideas on how to do something? Will it help them reach a certain goal?

The harder it is to get to the goal, the higher the likelihood that they will read your post to know more.

NOTE: Just make sure that you have explained the ‘how’ behind your ideas. If you don’t provide enough information, there is a risk that your readers will not visit your website again.

The Internet can now be considered as a sea of information. There are simply too many articles online and it is hard to know what to believe.

With this issue on trust comes the need for proof. And you need this in just about every blogpost that you write.

As for me, I love providing proof to my case studies.

While I show my readers how to go from point A to point B with these blogposts, I also provide proof right at the beginning.

Why do I do this? Because I want them to see that the case study is not just me theorizing that my method can work. Instead, I have the proof showing that it indeed works.

You can also provide some proof in other types of articles. It is an amazing way to win your reader’s trust and to get them to come back and read more content.

People love to talk about themselves. I get that. But you don’t have to do that in your blogposts.

I have seen people who ramble in their blogposts as if they are talking to their diary. Please don’t do that. If you keep doing that, your readers who are not getting anything from reading your ramblings may just stop reading your blog.

I have seen people who talk about their personal information in detail. They put this in the beginning of the blogpost as proof that they can be trusted. What they don’t know is that the fluff just scares people away.

Stay away from fluff. If the sentence can be deleted without affecting the article’s value, do so. Your readers will thank you for it.

You may have the ‘how’ covered. But if your ideas is too vague or requires too many hoops and turns to get your prospect to their destination, they will look somewhere else.

It is with this reason that the ‘how’ in your blogposts should be super specific.

For example, don’t just say ‘get a domain’.

Instead, take screenshots of the domain registrar and show the entire process of buying a domain step-by-step.

Remember, ideas that can be implemented are worth more than ideas in the air. Show them how actionable your ideas are with some step-by-step instructions.

This is perhaps the main reason why no one is reading your blog.

You see, bloggers have developed this bad habit of writing a blogpost and waiting for people to come. I call this the ‘Write and Wait’ Approach.

This is based on the idea of ‘create great content and they will come’. But seriously, it’s a lie!

No one is going to know that your blog exists if you don’t tell people about it.

So please do yourself a favor. Stop writing and start promoting – that’s the easiest way to get people to start reading your blog.

Conclusion

Are you committing these mistakes? This list is not a rehashed version of what is out there. Instead, it is my honest observation on blogs and their content.

What are you currently doing that could drive people away from your website? Tell me more about it in the comments.

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Today, I am going to show you how I made $48,963 selling services. And I did this by employing some psychologically-backed up techniques that I learned.

What did I do?

I used the Bullseye Technique – a psychological tactic that gets any client to work with you.

This is mindblowing.

With this technique, you’ll be able to get high paying clients coming to you for help – no need to reach out for they’ll be begging you to work for them!

How the Bullseye Technique Helped Me to Get 4-Figure Clients

Back in 2008, I am just a normal college student who is just looking for an online part-time job that can help me get through school. I used to have ZERO knowledge in Internet marketing, SEO, graphic design and programming.

But after implementing the Bullseye Technique, I managed to land 2 4-figure clients who are ever-so-willing to hand me their money every week.

And have my PayPal looking like this:

On top of that, I also landed a 30k deal locally as a researcher and writer in a popular University in my country that has over 50+ Units.

Not only that, my connections also paved the way for me to be recognized in my niche. This allowed me to land a job at a huge influencer website.

The best part?

You can do the same thing for yourself… even if you don’t have connections or any special skill.

Bullseye Technique: The 3-Step Approach to Getting Clients for Life

There are three steps to the Bullseye Technique:

STEP 1: Begin By Creating Relationships with Your Target MarketSTEP 2: Help Other PeopleSTEP 3: The One Thing You Should Do to Land High Paying Clients

Here’s why this technique works so well…

This technique targets the right people so that they can refer you to the highest paying clients.

This way, you will no longer be throwing your shots everywhere. Instead, it will be highly targeted.

Also, this technique allows you to exploit one aspect of persuasion: the moral aspect. I will go into detail about this in Step 3.

As a freelancer, your target market is your clients. Your clients will depend on your skill.

For example, programmers can have designers as their target market. They can also have marketers and game developers as their target market.

Meanwhile, writers can have bloggers as their target market. They can also reach out to product owners who like to have their sales copy written or edited.

The key is finding a target market that is so specific that your market will have no choice but to choose you once you start recommending yourself.

Once you know your market, you can now start reaching out. You can do this by researching people in your niche.

As for me, I do this easily via Feedly. I find that the most interesting blogs are there. I search for my topic and BOOM! I have a list of niche-specific blogs with active subscribers.

I then record everything on a spreadsheet.Next, I just look at the latest updates on Feedly on a daily basis and I comment on their blogs. If I’m feeling extra generous, I would also go out and share their content.

Continue doing this for 1 to 2 weeks.

After I get a feel of the niche, I now start getting some ideas on how I can help my market.

Why?

That’s what service providers do. We are here to help. And not just because we are paid. We do it because it is what we must do.

Repeat After Me – “I am Here to Help Other People”

Once you have drilled this quote into your head, you can now reach out to your target market to ask them if they need help with anything in their blog. But this can only work if you did Step 1. At this stage, they’ll be more receptive to your offer for help.

NOTE: You may be looking for some form of email template in this section but you’ll find none of that here. Sorry, I’m not really a fan of email templates and I think that all emails should be written personally for it to work.

Many freelancers enter this industry with a ‘make money’ mindset. While this is natural, it is way too overrated.

Why?

This is because the big money don’t come to people with that mindset.

Instead, it goes to people who are willing to go another mile for their clients.

You’re probably wondering… Does this mean that you should work for free?

Well… That depends.

You should not work for free for just anyone.

But you should work for free for someone who can bring you lots of new clients – this is the one thing that 84% of freelancers don’t do.

In the research conducted by a UK Startup, Approve.io, which surveyed 1,009 part-time and full-time freelancers in the UK, only 16% agreed to work for free. That is extremely low compared to the 84% who refused to do it.

Think about it. What do you have to lose? Your time? Your pride?

Are those things worth losing for 5-figures worth of clients?

Think about it.

You probably know the right answer.

This step works because it uses one aspect of powerful persuasion: the moral aspect. Derek Halpern, a marketer who focuses on the power of persuasion in his marketing process, utilizes three elements in his copy: the economic aspect, the social aspect and the moral aspect. The moral aspect is the weakest but is the easiest to use.

The concept is quite simple to understand.

People are more open to doing things for people who have already done something for them.

The same concept applies to anyone – any business owner, big or small.

So the next time you are wondering how to land the big clients, think about something that you can do to help these people. And try to offer your help.

You’ll be surprised with the results.

Now You Try It

If this concept will not land you high paying clients, I don’t know what will.

Yes. It will require you to let go of your pride and some of your time, but it will be all worth it.

That is unless you are more comfortable making pennies for each work that you do for the rest of your life.